Google's newest venture
Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new techno...
American to add Wi-Fi service to domestic flights
Being online while being airborne is fast becoming reality for U.S travelers. — American Airlines (AMR) is announcing on Tuesday that it's joining rival Delta Air Lines (DAL) in making Wi-Fi Interne...
Android tethering apps pulled from Market
Google has reportedly pulled tethering apps from the Android Market. According to at least one developer, who contributed to the WiFi Tether for Root Users app, Google are citing their distribution a...
Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store
The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 20 percent of paid applications for free distribution. — Apple's App Store offers about 25,000...
Wales giving up on Wikia Search
Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results ...
Postini: Spam up again following McColo takedown
It has taken spammers only four months to get their botnets back up after hosting company McColo Corp. was shut down, according to statistics due to be released on Tuesday from Google's Postini e-mail...
Poisoned Downad/Conficker Removal Searches...
As soon as the good news breaks that it is possible to use tools such as the network scanning tool nmap …
MySpace, Citysearch Partner To Create MySpace Local
MySpace and Citysearch are jointly announcing a new MySpace property this morning called MySpace Local. The site combines Citysearch business listings (including address, photos, menus, videos, maps ...
PlayStation 2 Will Be Available for Under $100
Hi everyone, the last time you heard from me, I talked about the huge milestone that PlayStation 2 achieved - reaching 50 million units sold in North America. Today I'm excited to talk about another ...
Skype works on AT&T's 3G on iPhone 3.0
We just found something very interesting. When you install Skype on a 3.0 developer preview iPhone, you can use AT&T's connection to make and receive calls. It even works pretty well over EDGE. Sky...
Analyst: 32GB iPhone could debut in June
Updated at 9:15 a.m. PDT with comments from analyst Daniel Amir. — Apple is expected to begin production on a high-end iPhone with 32GB of flash memory and a low-end 3G version this spring, accordin...
Authors have lost the plot in Kindle row
Amazon's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors' copyright but rather basic consumer rights — The Amazon Kindle 2's release in February was attended by much fanfare and con...
Forbes Starts a Second Round of Layoffs; Who Else Will Join It?
Forbes Media has begun a new round of layoffs and will let go of more than 50 people on its editorial and business teams, I'm told. The cuts are roughly proportional to the ones the business publicat...
Hulu Attracts Crowds but Not Ads
News Corp.-NBC joint venture Hulu has surged in viewership, but advertisers are still leery, and content partners are pulling back — In the Super Bowl commercial calling Hulu “an evil plot to destro...
Disney-Hulu Deal Done
A deal to bring Disney into the Hulu fold is “basically done,” a single source familiar with the discussions tells us. — PaidContent reported that if Disney were to do a deal, it would take a 30% st...
New method for detecting Conficker discovered, debuted
With Conficker.C slowly counting down towards its April 1 launch date, Team White Hat may have had a breakthrough. The new scanning tool developed by Dan Kaminsky, Felix Leder, and Tillman Werner may...
Next up for Microsoft's ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads
After setting the tech world abuzz with her criticism of Apple's Mac prices, the star of Microsoft's latest Windows ad will be featured next in promotional videos for 7-Eleven, according to a public W...
The Worm That Ate the Web
The latest version of Conficker isn't the first bot to plague the Internet, but it may be the smartest and most sophisticated. And it starts phoning home Wednesday. — Last week, I pulled out my Int...
Troubled SeeqPod Files For Bankruptcy Protection
SeeqPod, the popular “playable media” search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court o...
Twitter: Incredibly Valuable Or Utterly Useless As A Link Building Tool?
I've read so many articles lately about Twitter, from mainstream press to the sports world to the SEO world, that all seem to focus on the “phenomena” aspect of it. After the Twittles (Twitter+Skittl...
Microsoft Gains Support for Next Generation of Windows® Phones
EA Mobile, MySpace and Isaac Mizrahi are among early supporters of Windows® phones; new Windows® phone applications are now available. — Furthering its vision to connect the PC, Web and phone …
When Digital Media CEOs Lose It: Whose Portfolio Took The Biggest Hit In 2008
A couple of weeks ago, we ranked digital-media CEOs by the size of paychecks. But many of these titans derive most of their wealth not from salary, bonus or options, but from their holdings in the co...
What's the Password? Only Your iPhone Knows
A few weeks ago, I wondered if people would start to use their cellphones to verify their identities when logging on to Internet sites. I imagined a phone application similar to RSA's SecurID, the sm...
Tracking Conficker: So far, it's a snoozer [Update]
It's already April 1 in Asia, where the plurality of infected Conficker PCs are apparently located. Early reports on the Windows computer worm, which was supposed to start looking at 500 Internet dom...
Google's newest venture
Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new techno...
iPhone Next Generation: The Most Probable Evolution
I drooled at the idea of an iPhone Pro with slide keyboard and big honkin' camera, but let's face it: It's probably never going to happen. So—using logic—what will the next iPhone look like? — Prob...
PlayStation 2 Will Be Available for Under $100
Hi everyone, the last time you heard from me, I talked about the huge milestone that PlayStation 2 achieved - reaching 50 million units sold in North America. Today I'm excited to talk about another ...
Cheating husband caught on Google Street View
He didn't even say he was working late. No, no. He said he was away on business. — However, his wife, bathing in uncontrollable suspicion, decided to do the only thing she could. She dialed up the...
The Twitting Point
Bill O'Reilly has the last word on Twitter for today. He thinks the Twitterati is crushing talk radio, by sucking up all our listener time. He thinks that's bad; I hope he's right and it drives Rush...
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked
Smashing Magazine tries to be at the forefront of new and exciting developments in the wide world of the web. You might have heard that we met with the IE 8 Chief Strategist in the past, so it should...
Even Faster Wireless Broadband: Ericsson Demos 56 Mbps Network
Wireless broadband keeps getting faster and faster. Ericsson, a Sweden-based telecom equipment maker today showed off a new technology that boosts High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) speeds to 56 Mbps.